The State of High School Sports

123xxx
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Re: The State of High School Sports

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No one plays outside! Everything nowadays has to be organized. Go play kids...see you in 4-5 hours!


E High
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Re: The State of High School Sports

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Exactly. When mommy and daddy give them a cell phone at 5 years old ,the kid can entertain themselves for hours and the parents don’t have to deal with them. Problem is , most kids are doing the same things when they’re 16 and not working on their sports. Yet mommy/daddy are screaming at the coach, not knowing the kid has little skills.


itsme
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Re: The State of High School Sports

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mlittle wrote: Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:33 pm 1. Youth sports are fine. Only thing I have issue with is there is too much emphasis on winning. Should be for development and learning the game. They’ll learn to “win” later.

2. Specialization isn’t new. Athletes have been eliminating other sports to get better and play the sport they actually enjoy instead of one their parents or peers pressure them to play.

3. Travel ball shouldn’t only be reserved for the better players who you think it will benefit. What if the backup you speak of actually has aspirations to be a starter? Should he not be afforded that opportunity? Or what if that kid just LOVES the game and since he is a backup he’s not getting enough minutes and this is his opportunity to play and enjoy the game.

4. Is rather parents be too involved than for them to not be involved at all.

5. Referees aren’t being thinned out due to people yelling at them from the stands. That’s been happening since the beginning of time and will never stop regardless of how good officials are. It’s part of the game and officials uunderstand that and actually expect it.

6. The reason transferring has been an issue is due to open enrollment. If open enrollment would have been this easy 50 years ago. Them 50 years ago people would’ve been complaining about transferring then. If a kid is good enough to not have to wait his turn or fill a role at another school and their home school doesn’t see it that way then they move. Nothing wrong with that at all
OHSSA release a letter couple days ago about parents yelling at referees . Made national news


mlittle
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Re: The State of High School Sports

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itsme wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 1:17 pm
mlittle wrote: Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:33 pm 1. Youth sports are fine. Only thing I have issue with is there is too much emphasis on winning. Should be for development and learning the game. They’ll learn to “win” later.

2. Specialization isn’t new. Athletes have been eliminating other sports to get better and play the sport they actually enjoy instead of one their parents or peers pressure them to play.

3. Travel ball shouldn’t only be reserved for the better players who you think it will benefit. What if the backup you speak of actually has aspirations to be a starter? Should he not be afforded that opportunity? Or what if that kid just LOVES the game and since he is a backup he’s not getting enough minutes and this is his opportunity to play and enjoy the game.

4. Is rather parents be too involved than for them to not be involved at all.

5. Referees aren’t being thinned out due to people yelling at them from the stands. That’s been happening since the beginning of time and will never stop regardless of how good officials are. It’s part of the game and officials uunderstand that and actually expect it.

6. The reason transferring has been an issue is due to open enrollment. If open enrollment would have been this easy 50 years ago. Them 50 years ago people would’ve been complaining about transferring then. If a kid is good enough to not have to wait his turn or fill a role at another school and their home school doesn’t see it that way then they move. Nothing wrong with that at all
OHSSA release a letter couple days ago about parents yelling at referees . Made national news
Doesn’t mean it’s any different than it was 50 years ago. It just means people are more sensitive to those types of things now. Referees were just as bad 40 years ago as they are now. I guess they just had thicker skin then


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